27 December 2017

https://hyperallergic.com/408052/illusion-maps-at-harvard-map-collection/

https://artistsandclimatechange.com/2017/12/12/top-10-best-art-sustainability-iniatives-in-berlin/

http://www.nicolebeno.com/#/onsite-gallery-x-ocad-installation/

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https://m.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/29/vladimir-nabokovs-dream-diary/

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(Definition) 'abstruse'; abˈstro͞os; difficult to understand; obscure. "an abstruse philosophical inquiry" synonyms: obscure, arcane, esoteric, little known, recherché, rarefied, recondite, difficult, hard, puzzling, perplexing, cryptic, enigmatic, Delphic, complex, complicated, involved, over/above one's head, incomprehensible, unfathomable, impenetrable, mysterious

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2017/12/21/asians-going-mad-for-ripple-coin

(Delegation report)  http://www.ifpb.org/del63/report3.html

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition." - Steve Jobs, American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial designer
"Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody." - Piet Mondrian
"Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them." - Rudolf Steiner
"I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it’s complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an individual, each of them is a multitude." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi author of the book 'Creativity: The Work and Lives of 91 Eminent People'
"Discard everything that does not spark joy." - Marie Kondo, Japanese organizing consultant and author

21 December 2017

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/climate-change-maps

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/10/arts/design/why-experts-dont-believe-this-is-a-rare-first-map-of-america

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/11/20/565352403/a-google-related-plan-brings-futuristic-vision-privacy-concerns-to-toronto

http://www.northeastofnorth.com/neon-digital-arts-festival-2017/

(Nicole Loeser et al) http://universal-sea.org/about

(Definition) 'Disequilibrium' : happens when you begin to see things in the world that don’t make sense to you. The things you thought you knew, the things that helped you feel stable and clear, are now in question

(Art Residency) 'In the hole'   http://lindaduvall.com/

(Collage artist)  http://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13597/elisabeth-wild is a 95-year-old artist from Vienna who is making collage from the Guatemalan jungle,  Via  Collaborator: http://www.kunsthallebasel.ch/en/exhibition/vivian-suter-intrepida-featuring-elisabeth-wild-fantasias-2-2/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-bee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_77

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not." - Dr. Seuss
"...hanging out and cutting up paper seemed like fun. I didn’t think too much about it. They had a ton of magazines to work with and in couple of hours I ended up with five collages. They were like nothing that I’d ever done before. The process was fast, intuitive, and raw. It blew my mind. It was definitely a turning point. Collaging was playful and liberating." - Yasmine Diaz
"Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge." - Carl Jung
"Everyone spends their lives hoping, wishing, and asking instead of doing, being, and having." - The Universe
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - R.Buckminster Fuller

15 December 2017

https://www.destinationtips.com/destinations/23-mind-blowing-international-borders-around-world/

http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_murakami.html

http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/yale-presents-a-free-online-course-on-miguel-de-cervantes-masterpiece-don-quixote.html

(pdf) "The Practice of Art and Science"

Creating symmetry: the artful mathematics of wallpaper patterns 

https://www.https://www.reddit.com/user/Riyos

(Collage Artist) https://www.melissamoffat.com/artmain  Via

https://soundcloud.com/birnabeatz/anonymousareone

https://onbeing.org/blog/parker-palmer-in-quiet-places-we-face-the-questions-that-can-make-or-unmake-us/

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/12/jerusalem-embassy-capital-trump/

"All too often, what readers do is judge profound what they have failed to grasp." - Dan Sperber
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
"Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else." - Leonardo da Vinci
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality." - Dante
"Everything you give, you get back, times seven. Plus, what you give, grows, times seven." - The Universe

07 December 2017

https://www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do/toronto-ontario

https://www.artworkarchive.com/blog/how-to-make-art-that-people-really-care-about

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-6-painting-techniques-that-don-t-involve-a-brush

https://inhabitat.com/this-breathtaking-new-street-art-is-made-entirely-out-of-trash/

http://whitecube.com/artists/julie_mehretu/

http://kolajmagazine.com/content/content/articles/max-ernst-at-moma/

https://www.curbed.com/2017/11/28/16705202/trump-wall-mexico-border-prototypes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mayday_episodes

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"I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way; things I have no words for." - Georgia O’Keefe
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat." - Confucius
"It’s all just been practice, so far, for when the really good stuff shows up." - TU
"There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities." - Ursula K. Le Guin
" But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you." - Al-Baqara;verse 216

01 December 2017

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/

(Mixed Media Map Art) http://www.marycnasser.com/blog/friday-favorite-sarah-virginia-uhl

https://archpaper.com/2017/10/eight-border-wall-prototypes-unveiled/#gallery-0-slide-0

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-age-fake-photos-videos-spot

(Inspirational Quote Generator). http://inspirobot.me/

http://yongestclair.ca/zebra-public-art-mgmt-livens-yonge-st-clair/

http://nautil.us/blog/why-beauty-is-not-universal

https://www.designboom.com/art/ai-weiwei-fences-make-good-neighbors-public-art-fund-10-10-2017

https://www.theguardian.com/music/video/2017/nov/15/free-improvisation-still-the-ultimate-in-underground-music

http://upliftconnect.com/toning-vagus-nerve-heals-pain/

"In the end (not that there really is an end), it's ALL going to be about how much you loved." - The Universe
"Get familiar with discomfort." - R.B.Wild
"We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
"Asking for a friend." - Meme
"...the public eats up insider personality indulgences." - Robert Genn